Michael Hulme (born 23 July 1960) is Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, and also a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was formerly professor of Climate and Culture at King's College London (2013-2017) and of Climate Change in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA). Early life and education Mike Hulme attended Madras College secondary school from 1974 to 1978. He obtained a B.Sc. (Hons) in geography from the University of Durham in 1981 and a Ph.D. in applied climatology from the University of Wales, Swansea in 1985. His doctoral thesis was titled, Secular Climatic and Hydrological Change in Central Sudan. Academic career In 1988, after four years lecturing in geography at the University of Salford, he became for 12 years a senior researcher in the Climatic Research Unit, part of the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia. In October 2000 he founded the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, a distributed virtual network organisation headquartered at UEA, which he directed until July 2007. Hulme served on the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) from 1995 to 2001. He also contributed to the 2nd and 3rd Assessment Reports of the IPCC, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, for which Hulme received a personalised certificate acknowledging his contribution to the organisation. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief (since 2008) of the review journal Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs) Climate Change, published by John Wiley & Sons. In 2020, he became a signatory to the Great Barrington Declaration. The declaration, which called for an end to lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic, was sponsored by the American Institute for Economic Research, a libertarian free-market think tank associated with climate change denial. Publications He is best known as the author of Why We Disagree About Climate Change published in 2009 by Cambridge University Press and which was named by The Economist in December 2009 as one of their four Books of Year for science and technology. He is also the author of Weathered: Cultures of Climate (SAGE, 2017), Reducing the Future to Climate: a Story of Climate Determinism and Reductionism (Osiris, 2011), and Can Science Fix Climate Change? A Case Against Climate Engineering (Polity, 2014). He has edited the books Climates of the British Isles: Present, Past and Future, "Climate policy options post-2012: European